The rose is one of the broadest groups of plants that you will find in the UK.

Each variety has its benefits and soon you’ll find it easy to choose the right roses to grow in the different spots around your garden, whether it’s in a border, over a garden arch or in a patio pot. Read on find out which is the the right rose for you?

Hybrid Tea Roses

The Hybrid tea rose was first created by crossing robust, strong hybrid perpetuals with the more delicate, long-flowering tea roses. This success resulted in the modern hybrid tea rose, which have large flowers that are held alone on straight stems. The flowers have a ‘pointed’ appearance. Most are fragranced and they’re available in all colours except blue. Repeat-flowering and an bee friendly open growth habit. Ideal for cut flowers.

Climbing Rose

A traditional English climbing rose covering an archway or pergola really is just beautiful, flowering month after month after month…Not only do climbing roses boast robust flower, but their scent is just exquisite wafting around the garden on a warm summers evening. Perfect for covering up plain walls or fences, they are the quintessential cottage-garden climber and can easily be trained to clamber up to 2m tall and the vast variety of flower colour, shape and size gives you an abundance of choice.

Shrub & Bush Roses

Ideal for filling in the spaces you have in beds and borders, or for large patio containers, bush and shrub roses are totally winter hardy, growing to a compact size of around 60-90cm making them so easy to manage. Repeat flowering from May to October each year, they are so very easy to grow and will provide bloom after bloom in varying shapes and sizes against bushy, glossy fresh green foliage. The abundance of flowers and pretty foliage makes them ideal for use as small hedges. They are also perfect for cutting to create a pretty vase display. Nothing better than bringing a little of your garden inside to enjoy.

Standard Roses

Perfect as a focal point, standard roses form a lollipop shape with a chunk of flowers and foliage sat on top of a long bare stem – a process of ‘top-grafting’ the flowering variety on to the straight stem of the rootstock. A modern take on the traditional English rose, combining the beauty of an English rose with the contemporary look and feel of standard trees, they are perfect planted up in a large pot and placed either side of doorway to create a real grand entrance. Producing summer-long displays of beautifully scented blooms for many years to come, they are the perfect way to add an interesting touch of class to your home and garden.

Groundcover Roses

Groundcover varieties stand out for their blanket of bright beautiful blooms that spread out to cover the ground and create a carpet of colour. This species of rose produces wave upon wave of flowers whilst remaining compact, ideal for low borders or large patio containers as the roses will cover and cascade over the sides. Each rose will spread to around 1m wide and 0.5m tall so are great value for money, covering plenty of ground with just the one plant. Groundcover roses are high disease resistance, winter hardy and boast a delicate scent, therefore ground-cover roses are so popular and it’s not a great shock when they’re so easy to maintain and yet give such fabulous results each and every year!

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